‘Tis the season to get married!!! Be a little different and give your guests a true taste of the North with authentic Norwegian gingerbread party favours. Simply but beautifully decorated, to suit the style of your special day.

There is always room for humour and fun! Put these fantastic scandi artprints on the wall in the children’s rooms – or anywhere at home or at work, as a daily reminder to be in the NOW, and to make room for fun and imagination!

Hearts for weddings, Valentine’s or a wedding anniversary. Bunnies or eggs or chicks for Easter. Or choose bagged-up mini shapes as a special treat or gift, with a colourful ribbon and a gift tag. Dinosaurs or butterflies for children’s parties – or both, and they can choose! Stick a skewer in it and you have a…

Yesterday marked the official beginning of spring, with the vernal equinox. It’s the season of growth, new life, and for planning weddings!!! Early summer is a popular time to get married. I’m going to the Wimborne Spring Wedding Fair on the 23rd of April to promote my gingerbread biscuits as the perfect party favour. These mini-hearts…

This series of art prints for kids (and playful grown ups) is created by the Norwegian graphic artist and designer Anne Onsoien, who is a lifelong friend. Her prints are popular in Norway, and are sold in several children’s boutiques in Oslo. In the UK they are uniquely promoted and sold by us. They are currently…

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Baking the gingerbread biscuits together as a family was a firm pre-Christmas tradition throughout my childhood in Norway. And it still is. My granny (“Mormor”) did a lot of the baking with us, of which I have very fond memories. She lived till nearly 101. I now use her rolling pin and other tools when I bake,…

This sunday I attended my very first wedding fair!! It was held at a beautiful Dorset venue; the Orangery Suite at Merley Hall. It was cold but the sun was shining, and there was a steady stream of couples and their tails of mothers, friends and children, looking for ideas for their upcoming weddings, some soon,…

I make gingerbread biscuits to an authentic traditional Norwegian recipe, decorated to suit any festive occasion. It’s traditionally something we make and eat at Christmas time in Norway (where I grew up), but it tastes and works well at any time of year, and keeps well. I love the flavour but also the smell when…

A new project site calls for an introduction. Smoo&Smidler is a playful reference to a romance or a marriage. Or a dynamic duo – a partnership between two individual components that help each other shine. It also works around the idea that complexity and paradox is what makes things fly; it’s what we need, however frustrating it can be. I…

The standard 9.5cm decorated hearts which feature in most of the photos, cost £2 each. It is a crunchy, substantial biscuit, decorated with royal icing and other optional decorative detail, wrapped in a clear cellophane bag with a twist tie to seal it for freshness and a satin ribbon in your choice of colour. It can…